Do you stop work for lunch?

[nallard84]

I'm supposed to take a lunch but rarely have the time to, I generally find myself running through a driver through at a fast food joint and cramming down a burger as I drive to my next call. The company that I am is always complaining about techs not working through their shift and not taking a lunch, I just take the overtime as they have to pay me if I work through my lunch

[SCREWTAPE]

"Do I stop for lunch"

All the time.

[AlvinBrown]

I do. I need to. I bring lunch over to the kids down the block.

[Lagonda]

I'd like to stop for lunch but I've got 15 techs out on the road I'm providing support for. Since they all dont stop at the same time the phone doesn't stop ringing all day long. Add to that salesmen that think I'm at their beck and call and not to forget those pesky customers who want their problem fixed NOW!. Lunch, dream on.......

[arth]

sometimes only snacks after finished my calls then launch!!!!

[AlvinBrown]

I'd like to stop for lunch but I've got 15 techs out on the road I'm providing support for. Since they all dont stop at the same time the phone doesn't stop ringing all day long. Add to that salesmen that think I'm at their beck and call and not to forget those pesky customers who want their problem fixed NOW!. Lunch, dream on.......

My boss would hug you for your dedication

[NeoMatrix]

Approximately 90% of the time I get lunch... I never get a regular lunch break ever. It somewhere between 12:00 and 3:00pm each day. The other 10% of the time depends on how busy I am. This includes no lunch at all, to a 10min stuff as much in your mouth and keep going afternoons.

Approximately 5% of the time I get morning tea (smoko in OZ). I don't really want to eat this early in the morning any how. So I nearly always forget the bosses strict instruction to take a 10min break.

I start the day usually a half hour early, and sometimes finish a half hour later with absolutely NO OVERTIME pay. This give you and idea of how busy I am most days. I have the odd 1 to 2 hours finishing late to get the customers machine going. And again with no over time pay.

I then come home and assist every one else with all their associated problems, emails, save-the-world-situations, take a shower, have dinner, kiss my lovely wife, and hit the bed sometime around midnight.

My brother is a church goer says that I'm clocking up "Soul Credits for my work". I say to him "when can I cash them in to buy something"

GDM

[mrwho]

But this thread begs a new one called "Do you stop lunch for work"?

I certainly don't!

[TAGdesign]

Here in southern Spain they will call you mentally sick if you work during lunch- Which is from 2 till 5,btw.

[sdrawkcab]

But this thread begs a new one called "Do you stop lunch for work"?

I certainly don't!

....nice one!

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

Do you stop work for lunch?

Do you stop work for lunch?

Regardless of the work conditions, most employers regard lunch time for their employees as very important since it re-energizes them and ensures work efficiency. However most technicians prefer to skip their lunch preferring to finish the task at hand withoutand instead have a late lunch usually snacks between 4-5 pm.



The nature of the work (Task) the technician is handling is also another decisive factor. For example a normal periodic maintenance or troubleshooting a fault. The latter requires more time and concentration on the part of the technician such that any distraction (inform of lunch break) is considered to be a draw back to the progress of the repair action.
The bottom line is that for most techs you should use your power of judgment/discretion to decide depending on the task at hand.
Years later on, as you progress (through promotion), from your role as a service engineer to technical sales engineer (TSE) or Field supervisor,


You will NOW, as a TSE, apply your combined SALES and TECHNICAL SKILLS in support of the sales department. This will depend mostly on your ABILITY and DESIRE to work closely with the sales people and how good you are at VERBAL and WRITTEN communication skills.
This is now the period when you will start to realize that you have some

WISH YOU LUCK.

[PEPELEMU]

Dinner

Lunch is one knee on the steering wheel one hand holding the phone and the other hand jamming food in my face rushing to the next fire!!!!!

[mrwho]

Lunch is one knee on the steering wheel one hand holding the phone and the other hand jamming food in my face rushing to the next fire!!!!!

And I though *I* was the only guy with knee-driving skills!

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

Yeah, the urge to 'steal' a quick bite at the doughnut, has forced all of us to learn and perfect on the 'knee driving technique'. that is how the life of a technician seems to be designed.

[Jules Winfield]

This is why I'm so glad I got out of the field...